Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Inadequate documentation: sockets | Date | Tue, 6 Mar 2001 18:34:08 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> =46inally I'm left with my original problem: how am I supposed to > detect a close or a shutdown from the peer? Once again, I thank in > advance anyone who will lend me a hand by explaining this to me or > by addressing me to more adequate documentation.
By an EOF on read or getting SIGPIPE/EPIPE on a write. You might want to pick up a book on the subject of network programming. There are some very nice ones around - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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